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Castle Upton Art Gallery
Contemporary Irish Paintings and Sculpture
Open Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
(and by appointment at other times)
Tel: 028 9443 3480
Email: info@castleuptongallery.com
www.castleuptongallery.com
“Reflections of Our
Coast”
Castle Upton
2009 Annual Exhibition
T
he Castle Upton Art Gallery in Templepatrick is pleased to Awards include An Chomhairle Ealaion, Arts Council for Northern
announce their 2009 Annual Exhibition ‘Reflections of our Ireland, British Council and she recently won the John Ross & Co.
Coast’ will take place from 28th November until Christmas. Watercolour Prize at the Royal Ulster Academy’s Annual Exhibition
Works of art inspired by scenes from the North Coast of Antrim will for the second time.
be on display and for sale from the gallery’s artists and sculptors
including Gary Devon, Frances Ryan, Elizabeth Taggart, Samantha
2 Main Street, Cushendun
Ellis Fox, Gavin McCandless, Kevin McAleenan, Robert Ellison, Alva
Barbara Allen
Gallagher and Barbara Allen.
The gallery specialises in contemporary Irish art - both in paintings
and sculpture. The paintings are united by their strong appreciation
of colour; whilst the sculpture is both figurative and zoological,
including large pieces designed for the garden or open spaces. It is
the gallery's intention to have a spread of both known and relatively
unknown artists as well as a wide range of prices, so that there is
always affordable art available for connoisseurs of all types.
The prestigious annual group show is held in the Ballroom Gallery
in Castle Upton and admission to the exhibition is free. The castle is
ideally situated just five minutes from the motorway to Belfast and
Gavin McCandless is a Co. Antrim native who studied visual art in
ten minutes from the International Airport. It sits behind the stone
Gloucestershire and has since become renowned for his landscape
wall which runs along one side of the village of Templepatrick in its
paintings of the local countryside, depicting Ireland’s familiar scenes
own beautiful 4 acre gardens with a herd of Chital deer grazing in
of fields, coastline and farms, all in his own original style. His work
the surrounding fields.
has been compared to that of renowned Irish artist Paul Henry in its
Castle Upton has developed from a medieval fort and chapel, to a
harmony of colour, light and texture. His paintings for this exhibition
tower house and fort, and eventually into a grand Scottish Baronial
are united by their original brushwork, textured paint surfaces and
Castle in the mid-nineteenth century. Its top floor and most of its
powerful lines, and are snapshots of a timeless Ireland.
battlements were removed in the early twentieth century.
He has exhibited all over Ireland both North and South and his
The permanent gallery is in the medieval arched Refectory,
work has proved very popular in the Castle Upton Gallery.
believed to have been where the Knight Templers may have dined
whilst guarding the trading routes between Carrickfergus and
Antrim and Derry and Belfast. The exhibition will be open from 9 to
On the Antrim Coast
5 Monday to Friday and by appointment on Saturday.
Gavin McCandless
Artists’ Profiles
Barbara Allenis a well known and respected local artist whose
work can be found in private and public collections from the Arts
Council of Northern Ireland and UTV and even in the White House,
Washington D.C. Her subject matter is essentially architectural, both
urban and rural, and through the medium of watercolour Barbara is
able to record the built heritage of Ireland.
Her work for this exhibition encompasses the familiar shop fronts
This exhibition will run from 28th November until Christmas and
and buildings recognisable from well known coastal towns,
the permanent collection is on show now, open Monday to Friday 9
including Ballycastle and Cushendun. She takes the mundane
until 5.
facades of every day buildings and creates something special
For more information please call Claire on 028 9443 3480or email
through her sweeping use of fresh, vibrant colours and fantastic
info@castleuptongallery.com
attention to detail, making them both architecturally interesting and www.castleuptongallery.com
aesthetically pleasing.
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